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From Perfectionism and Self-Doubt to Clarity and Ease

I had the joy of speaking with Simplero customer Raluca Mirza earlier today. She'd written me an email talking about overwhelm and perfectionism, and she graciously volunteered to hop on a video call with me to look into this, and to share the result with you.

I'm so grateful that she said yes. I know it can be frightening, but the reality is that there are no unique challenges. We all face some variation of the same thoughts and issues.

Watch and learn. I'm sure you'll find that you can relat…

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Is your business and your family conflicting? + Order Bumps

Anette asks:

"I am afraid that I loose focus on my loving family, - but I am sad about not offering more of my skills to other people, because I know that I can help them a lot getting more meaning in their life."

Check out my answer here:

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Lots of love,
–Calvin

Did You Know You Could Do This?

Our Basic Plan and higher, offer a great feature called Automations.  Automations can help you automate giving and revoking access to spaces and pages, trigger emails or text notifications, and ev…

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Would it be okay if it's easy?

Every single time I've struggled with something, when I finally found the key that unlocked the solution, it turned out to be easy.

If you've got the wrong key, or you're trying the wrong door, or you're turning the key the wrong way, or sticking it in the wrong hole, it's going to be a STRUGGLE. You push and push, turn and turn, fiddle and moan and hurt yourself and get all wound up, but the door simply won't open.

That's when it's time to pause, take a deep breath, and say: "I choose easy wo…

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Customer Interview: Megan Meyers of Princess Ballerinas

A few weeks ago I sent out a newsletter where I asked you about your vision, and Megan replied. Her reply intrigued me so much, I had to ask her for an interview. She obliged, but asked that it not be an interview, but rather a conversation that we just happened to record, and share if the result turned out to be useful. That sounded great to me.

Megan has really mastered how to create easy and flow and success in her business without even a hint of struggle. This, my friends, is how it's suppo…

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Occupying space

First off, thank you all for an incredible birthday celebration last week. We had a blast at the live webinar, and all throughout the week received so much outpouring of support and gratitude, it was hard to no blush. Thank you.

Something that's on my mind this week is fully occupying space. It's a weird phenomenon, but I can very much feel it. Let me explain.

The idea comes from Gay Hendricks' book The Big Leap, which I've just finished reading for probably the fourth time. In the second half…

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What we all want...

I was watching some clips from last night's comedy shows on YouTube this morning, when I came across the story about Trump bringing out a fresh map of the electoral college win in the middle of a conversation with journalists about the Chinese president. That's when in dawned on me: The guy just wants to be loved!

And you know what? I can empathize with that. Isn't that true for all of us? At the end of the day, we just want to feel that sense of wholeness that comes from feeling safe and loved…

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Reusing space content for new classes

Many of you may have evergreen courses, where you can just send your participants through the same material again and again and are not worried by time sensitive content or have turned off commenting by users. Many times these pages are auto-publish and therefore the pages must be released through automation or auto responses.

But what if your content changes a bit for each class based on the time of year or topics? Maybe you allow commenting on your content, and don't want the next class to se…

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What's Your Vision?

Just took a few days off in one of my favorite recreational spots, Calamigos Guest Ranch in Malibu. Or, as Nick calls it, the dude ranch. Fun fact: Ranch dressing was invented on a dude ranch. Uhm, I love ranch dressing.

It was a great reminder of how important it is to take some time away from the day-to-day to just chill. I literally hung out the entire day Monday by the pool. Got there for breakfast a little after 10, and didn't leave until almost 6pm when the sun had all but left. My body h…

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Egalitarianism and Other Very Long Words

I spent a few days last week at the annual songwriter expo from ASCAP, one of two organizations tasked with collecting royalties for songwriters. It's a really awesome community of people, and it's one that reminds me in many ways of the community of programmers.

My favorite part of the ASCAP Expo is Thursday night's songwriter showcase. We heard Eric Bazillian tell the story of how he wrote "One of Us" to impress a Swedish girl (who he has now been married to for 20-odd years). Or Rob Hyman wr…

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Meet Nicole and Katie Myofascial Release therapists

Tell me a little about your business…

Look inside. Love your Life is a business my partner and I created as a way to spread our knowledge of bodywork and the mind body connection to other people through the internet. We have created Self Care Classes online with Simplero teaching people what Myofascial Release is, What Self Care and Self Love is, How belief systems are connected to your body and how it operates, and how to release your own fascia to free yourself from pain, mental and physical!…

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